Banned for boxing on NA_Siege_Community. Unban Please

[Herald_Hardrata]

Hi all,

 I was playing today on NA_Siege_Community, having a good time. My brother came into the room and we started talking and I showed him how the game worked. We started talking about other things and I just ran my character around the flag and challenged some people to some boxing duels while waiting for the enemy. One of the people I punched was just standing at the flag looking like a leacher, he was actually an admin (he had GK in his name, didn't catch the rest). Anyway,  I wasn't reading the text in the bottom left corner because I was talking to my brother, 30 seconds after punching the admin he perma-bans me.

Not a kick, I've never been kicked on the server and have always had decent behavior. He just straight out busted out the ban hammer without even a kick. It seemed pretty excessive. I have no idea if there were any warning given in text, they're probably were but I wasn't reading because I was talking to my brother.

Anyway, I'm sorry for punching the admin, even though he was wearing heavy armor and I doubt it did any real damage to him. A simple kick would have been quite sufficient to get me to stop and I would have learned a lesson. But a full on perma-ban? It seems excessive, so I'm requesting to be unbanned here as my friend told me to go to the forums. It's a really fun server and most of the people have been really cool, it just doesn't make sense to perma-ban someone for doing something that's not even really that bad, most people on that server like to kill time with a boxing match or two, it's not like this sort of thing never happens on the server.

Well, thanks for reading my unban request. Once again I'm sorry for punching the admin.

[Herald_Hardrata]

Apparently the admin was only supposed to kick on the first offense. Unless each punch was considered a separate offense even though they happened in the same instance.

Here are the rules I pulled from another unband request regarding teamwounding (which I'm assuming was the citation).

"-Team Killing and Team wounding-
Team killing and Team wounding have several different levels and situations that they might occur in. The official ATS policy is : any intentional Team wounding or Team killing will lead to Immediate punishment, this also Includes a teammates Horse!

-Recommended Action-
1st Offense: On a first offense the admin has several options, they may choose to warn the Offending player or they may instantly kick the player without warning.
2nd Offense: The admin again has several options, they may choose to warn the player and kick them, they may choose to immediately kick the player, or they may choose to Ban the player for a short period of time."

Under first offense it doesn't say banning is a recommended action, so my original suspicion that it was an excessive action seems to be correct, unless the rules have changed. Once again thanks for your time.

[Sphinxer]

If you read at the bottom , they are more like recommended actions than rules

" Keep in mind that all action that an admin takes are at their discretion and the above recommendations are just that, recommendations, so take them with a grain of salt. "

This said, a ban for punching seems a lot too harsh, but I'll wait to hear from the admin before judging, maybe there's something not said here

[Rangerbob]

This is a general outline of how long, if you are indeed banned, your ban may last. If you are a repeat offender it may last up to twice as long.

Bans may be questioned on the Community forum boards, but if you or a friend argue in game or provoke an admin, even if it was a mistake, the ban may be increased by a day or longer.

PLEASE NOTE: Some bans will be handed out after a warning/kick, but not all. Remember, if a player is griefing you, report them to an admin by pressing i. Do not take the law into your own hands.

Exploiting-247 days.

Intentional Team Killing (no warning needed)- 1 week.

Intentional Team Wounding - (no warning needed)1 week.

Obscene Names - 1 Day.

Leeching- 1 Day

Intentional Delaying - 1 Day

Actually those are the current rules.  Since Ecko is basically the server owner his rules > Gash.

Lorden didn't perm ban you and in fact the ban has already expired.  It looks like he just made you sit out for an hour.

Anyhow play clean and we'll see you on.